Now what!?

[Diez B. Roggisch]

notbob schrieb:
> Grrr....
> 
> I'm following A Byte of Python and into the while loops chap.  I cp/paste
> while.py to a file and give 777 perms.  I mv while.py to while and run it (./while)
> as a standalone script.  I get errors.
> 
> Here is the script:
> 
> while.py
> 
> http://www.ibiblio.org/swaroopch/byteofpython/read/while-statement.html
> 
> 
> When I run it as.....
> 
> $ python while
> 
> .....it works perfect.  But, if I run it simply as.....
> 
> $ ./while
> 
> .....I get this:
> 
> $ ./while
> number: illegal number: =
> ./while: line 6: running: command not found
> ./while: line 9: syntax error near unexpected token ('
> ./while: line 9:         guess = int(raw_input('Enter an integer : '))'
> 
> Why does it work one way and not the other.  If I run the simple hello world
> script the same way ($ ./helloworld) and it works fine.  Same shebang, same
> dir, same permission, etc.  I even meticulously indented everything
> perfectly by hand.  What am I missing?

I'm pretty sure you misse the correct shebang - the shell tries to 
execute your script as shell-script, instead of invoking the interpreter.

Diez